Pyemmairre language
| Pyemmairre | |
|---|---|
| Northeastern Tasmanian | |
| Region | North-eastern corner of Tasmania |
| Ethnicity | Northeastern and Ben Lomond tribes of Tasmanians |
| Extinct | 19th century |
Northeastern Tasmanian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xpb |
| Glottolog | benl1235 |
| AIATSIS[1] | T7 Ben Lomond, T9 Cape Portland, T14 Piper River |
Northeastern Tasmanian, or Pyemmairre, is an Aboriginal language of Tasmania.
It is identified in the reconstruction of Claire Bowern.[2] It was spoken in the northeastern corner of the island, including at Cape Portland.
Northeastern Tasmanian is attested from three word lists of Charles Robinson and his father George Augustus Robinson:[3] From Cape Portland (366 words), Ben Lomond (195 words), and Pipers River (126 words).[4] Bowern also includes the language of the Port Dalrymple vocabulary (125 words) collected by J.-P. Gaimard in the Tamar River region of the North Midlands;[5] however, it is divergent, and Dixon & Crowley (1981) consider it to be a distinct language.[6]
The name Pyemmairre may not include the highland people of Ben Lomond, for which Plangermaireener ("Plangamerina") has been used.
References
[edit]- ↑ T7 Ben Lomond at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Bowern, Claire (2012). "The riddle of Tasmanian languages". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1747): 4590–4595. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1842. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3479735. PMID 23015621.
- ↑ Robinson, George Augustus. Robinson papers A7085. Manuscripts held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney.
- ↑ Bowern (2012), supplement
- ↑ Gaimard, Joseph Paul. 1834. Vocabulaire de la langue des habitans du Port Dalrymple (Tasmanie). In: J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville, Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe (1826-29). Philologie, vol. 2, pp. 9-10.
- ↑ Crowley, T; Dixon, R. M. W. (1981). "Tasmanian". In Dixon, R. M. W.; Blake, B. J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian languages. Vol 2. Canberra: Australian National University Press. pp. 394–421.
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